And the story of that doomed hero, who inspired his teammates to victory with his deathbed words, has threaded its way through the President's entire career as an actor and as a politician.

Mr. Landers, as the doomed hero, and Kellye Gordon, as his sweetheart, made their debuts in the ballet on Thursday night.

An important, and possibly influential, cinematic antecedent to classic noir was 1930s French poetic realism, with its romantic, fatalistic attitude and celebration of doomed heroes.

But here the doomed hero seduced by Carmen is a policeman named Hill, played by Mekhi Phifer.

Quite the contrary, Senjin possessed that confluence of features most admired in doomed Japanese heroes down through the ages.

Harp told it all, keeping his language lean, passing lightly over Laython's disobedience, letting him show as the doomed hero.

Boris Kochno, Serge Diaghilev's secretary, is seen adjusting the noose for the doomed hero.

The author (who sees Christ and life as sworn enemies) sympathizes his doomed hero.

He originally appeared in The Dead Zone (1979), where he offers Johnny Smith, the doomed hero of that novel, a job as a psychic on his awful paper, the supermarket tabloid Inside View.

In the end, however, the picture is not so much that of a doomed hero as of a man growing steadily out of touch with reality.